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I was recently speaking at a church in Tennessee for a healing service. As we began, I first asked how many people needed to forgive somebody and hadn’t done it. I would probably say there were about 50 people in the audience who had raised their hand. They had not…

When God called his servant Jonah to go to Nineveh and cry against the great city, Jonah fled to Tarshish seeking to escape God’s instruction. Jonah recognized the voice of God, a voice he had surely heard in times past. Whether for fear of his own safety or disregard for…

The Bible mentions music more than 800 times. That is no minor emphasis. God places great importance on how we respond to Him, and music is one of the primary vehicles He has given us to do so. Psalm 100:2 commands us to “come before His presence with…

Forgiveness is more than God canceling our sins; it also means that He has remitted them–forever blotted them out of His memory. They will never be brought up against you again, because there is nothing to remember. Remind yourself that God keeps no record of your sin, because it has…

Life can be tough, but there’s no shortage of God’s grace and goodness in hard times. You might think the Bible is a book about heroes and holy men, super-spiritual people who never failed and always did the right thing. But the truth is, it features an all too human…

In Acts, chapter 16, we read where Paul and Silas were thrown into prison in Philippi after casting a demon out of a young girl. They were taken prisoner by the Roman authority, bound, lashed across their backs with the Roman cat-of-nine-tails, and placed into a prison cell in chains…

When you testify concerning the Word, the power of God goes forth. Have you ever watched a person give testimony in a court of law? They speak words – words that change the minds, thoughts, decisions, and actions of other people.

Great men of God, pastors and teachers everywhere, are saying that God is using prayer – intercessory prayer – prayer like we have never known before as a mighty part of His arsenal in the Body of Christ.

2 Corinthians 10:4: For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds. Notice that we Christians are equipped with weapons, mighty weapons, which are able to tear down strongholds set up by the enemy, Satan.

Everyone longs for hope, and in most cases it is either fanned into flame or extinguished with words. King Solomon had it right: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue.” Jesus constantly spoke life-giving words of hope to those around Him.

There has been much teaching on “intersession”…. Unfortunately, sometimes we are prone to cast spiritual warfare in a wrong light. Of course we cannot ignore the enemy of our souls, but neither should we lavish attention on him.

If you feel trapped by your circumstances and can’t see a way out, then I want to show you a new paradigm—the paradigm of hope, which I briefly define as the confident expectation of the goodness of God.

No soldier marches into battle wearing a T-shirt and blue jeans; he needs a helmet, boots, body armor, and camouflage, as well as offensive munitions. Likewise, God has equipped you…. The well-armed believer puts on the incredible defensive gear that the apostle terms “the whole armor of God.”

Have you ever asked yourself, “What would Jesus do?” Well, I can tell you what He did. At the outset of His ministry, the Lord stated quite plainly that He had come “to bring Good News to the poor . . .

When Jesus preached His first sermon, He came straight to the point: “Repent and believe in the gospel.” In today’s English He was saying, “Change your way of thinking and fill your heart and mind with the good news.”

Think there’s no hope for you? Just take a quick look at the people who changed their world: Moses, King David, and the apostle Paul were all murderers, yet among them they wrote at least nineteen of the Bible’s sixty-six books. But what happened when the Bible’s league of rejects encountered God’s grace?

Many Christians seek prayer and counsel because they “need a word from God,” yet they don’t realize that their desperation for a word comes from their deficit of the Word. They can read the Bible but choose not to.